The ‘Stans Prize 2011' (for the best thesis, report or article produced by a CML student) has been awarded to Ingrid Odegard for her research on The Future of Food - Scenarios and the Effects on Resource Use in Agriculture

In September 2011 the first international Master's programme in Industrial Ecology has been started.
The MIND programme (ERASMUS MUNDUS Master's programme in Industrial Ecology) is a new two-year programme with 120 ECTS, offering a unique Industrial Ecology education.

On December 16th 23 students of the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University took part of the first total species inventory to assess the effectiveness of an underwater landscape that was build in March 2003 to restore the biodiversity in an area where the environment was destroyed by dike restorations